Delores Winans rarely gets to see all 10 of her children
at once. But starting tonight in Mobile, Ala., she'll know exactly where her
famous offspring will be for the next two months  on the stage with her
and her husband, David.

The gospel-singing family's Together We Stand tour marks
the first time in 10 years that they've all performed together. This time, they'll
be joined by the third generation: Winans Phase 2, four sons of the original
Winans quartet made up of brothers Marvin, Carvin, Ronald and Michael.

"We all have a great time together when we go out," she
says, noting that she had planned to have only a boy and a girl, but seven boys
arrived before CeCe, the first of three girls, was born. "I'm excited because
we get to go out and spread the Gospel."

"It's the Lord's doing," says her husband (together they're
billed as Mom & Pops Winans). "There's so much going on between families these
days, and you don't see enough of one another.

"Here I was, an only child, and I wound up having seven
sons and three daughters  just like Job," he says. "The only difference
between Job and me is I wasn't rich."

It was more than 20 years ago that gospel great Andrae
Crouch discovered The Winans, whose success paved the way for siblings BeBe
& CeCe, Angie & Debbie, Daniel and, eventually, Mom & Pops.

Getting them all together for this tour was even harder
than it was 10 years ago, says BeBe, who's handling the logistics and is creative
director. He says growing careers, business pursuits, parental obligations and
the like are much bigger considerations that they were a decade ago.

"It's been a process, and sometimes a painful process,
because we are not the Brady Bunch. But with all we've had to endure, it's going
to be even more special to us than we can honestly see right now."

Already making it special is the presence of Ronald, whose
survival on the operating table after a massive heart attack in 1997 is seen
by the family as a miracle

"I had expired for about four or five minutes, and they
had lost me," Ronald says. "I was so weak that I flatlined. But through the
prayers of the saints and prayers of people and through the grace of God, I
was revived. And I'm here today."

BeBe says the 2 1/2 -hour
show will flow between different family members, with no large segments devoted
to one act. They will take requests, "though I hope they don't pick songs that
are just too old to remember," he says.

Juan Winans, son of Carvin, says that his quartet is looking
forward to touring with the family for the first time. They were still adolescents
during the tour 10 years ago.

"We made it to a couple of those shows, and I vividly remember
them," he says.

Still, he says, Phase 2 became a group mainly to give its
hip-hop-influenced generation an alternative.

"We don't sing gospel just because our parents or our aunts
and uncles do it," he says. "We do it because it's a part of us. For us, it's
an everyday lifestyle."